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9781496802743 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 6, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A.
9781628460933 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 18, 2014, cover price $90.00
Product Description: Youâve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than he knows; the pompous religious expert who discovers his folly before itâs too late; nosey neighbors and petty relatives; and a fight between good and evil in which, by storyâs end, good and evil almost seem to switch places...read more
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9781612615868 | Paraclete Pr, July 1, 2015, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Youâve met the characters in these stories before.
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9781906257149, titled "Why The Bear Has No Tail and other Russian Fairy-Tales: Russian Fairy-Tales" | Italian edition edition (Fontanka, April 30, 2015), cover price $11.95
The tales include "Baba Yaga," the story of the famous witch who lived in a house that walked on chicken feet. Ransome says in his autobiography that the English listeners know nothing of the world that in Russia listeners and storytellers take for granted. So rather than direct translation he read all the variants of the story, and rewrote them with Old Peter, Vanya and Maroosia rather than the Ogre, the Elf and the Imp.
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9781603127394 | Aegypan, September 30, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The tales include "Baba Yaga," the story of the famous witch who lived in a house that walked on chicken feet.
9781421965598 | Indypublish.Com, January 30, 2006, cover price $96.99 | About this edition: Includes twenty traditional tales told by Old Peter to his two grandchildren.
9781557424655 | Wildside Pr, October 31, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This is a book written far away in Russia, for English children who play in deep lanes with wild roses above them in the high hedges, or by the small singing becks that dance down the gray fells at home.
9780224029599 | Reissue edition (Random House of Canada Ltd, September 1, 1984), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Brings together twenty-one Russian folk tales of fantasy and enchantment which captivate young imaginations
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9781500405366 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 5, 2014, cover price $7.49 | About this edition: Twenty-one fairy tales told by Old Peter to his two grandchildren.
9781409769071 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2008, cover price $9.45
9781434606068 | Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007, cover price $23.75 | About this edition: With Illustrations by Dmitri Mitrokhin
9781434606815 | Large print edition (Bibliobazaar, October 31, 2007), cover price $25.75 | About this edition: With Illustrations by Dmitri Mitrokhin
9781603123211 | Aegypan, October 31, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Old Peter's Russian Tales is a collection of twenty-one Russian folktales drawn from Ransome's time in Russia.
5 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
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9780486493923 | Bilingual edition (Dover Pubns, May 21, 2014), cover price $14.95
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9780739188606 | Lexington Books, April 17, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia is a translation from the Russian of two stories of demonic possession, of innocence lost and regained.
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9781617035968 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 13, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Baba Yaga is an ambiguous and fascinating figure.
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9780141442235 | Penguin Classics, June 25, 2013, cover price $18.00
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9781616084844 | Reprint edition (Sky Pony Pr, March 1, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: While living in Russia, Tolstoy operated a tiny school for the peasant children, where they could learn to read, write, and draw.
9780805007350 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This illustrated volume collects twenty-five stories written by the celebrated novelist for the young students of the school he founded on his property, where he himself taught neighboring children
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9780548048580 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $36.95
9780848602161 | Reprint edition (Roth Pub, June 1, 1979), cover price $16.75 | About this edition: Originally published in 1903.
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9781463895792 | Alan Rodgers Books, June 6, 2011, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: "Dear children," says the stepmother to her stepson and daughter.
9781409712886 | Read Books, May 30, 2008, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Folk Tales From The Russian.
9781417968060 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 11, 2005, cover price $21.95
9781410206886 | Univ Pr of the Pacific, June 1, 2003, cover price $14.99
Product Description: This title retells five famous Russian folktales as narrated by Koshka, a wise old black cat. Meet characters such as the beautiful sea princess, the glorious firebird and the exquisite snowmaiden, who take the reader on a colourful journey through Russia.
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9780753452936 | Kingfisher Books, September 15, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Four Russian folktales--'The Snowmaiden,' 'Sadko the Minstrel,' 'The Firebird, Ivan, and Gray Wolf,' and 'Vassilisa the Fair and Baba-Yaga'--are set in the framework of a fifth tale, Koshka's tale, as told by a wise old cat.
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9780606198264 | Demco Media, October 1, 2000, cover price $21.46 | About this edition: Four Russian folktales--'The Snowmaiden,' 'Sadko the Minstrel,' 'The Firebird, Ivan, and Gray Wolf,' and 'Vassilisa the Fair and Baba-Yaga'--are set in the framework of a fifth tale, Koshka's tale, as told by a wise old cat.
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9781439530306 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This title retells five famous Russian folktales as narrated by Koshka, a wise old black cat.
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9780548837443 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2008, cover price $21.95 | also contains The Russian Fairy Book | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780486410197 | Dover Pubns, April 1, 2000, cover price $6.95
Hardcover:
9781563244957 | M E Sharpe Inc, February 28, 2006, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: "The Complete Russian Folktale" makes available to English readers a rich folk tradition that has not been easily accessible or well known in the West.
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9780862410827 | Canongate Books Ltd, May 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales from gypsies of various regions of the Soviet Union reflects their nomadic life, their beliefs, and their fear of the unknown
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9781566564427 | Revised edition (Interlink Pub Group Inc, April 1, 2002), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by
9780940793972 | Interlink Pub Group Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A collection of tales offers a look at gypsies' nomadic ways and the rules that govern how certain things are done, including courtship, clan leadership, and stealing
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9780192745361 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Collects ten traditional Russian folk tales featuring Ivan the fool, Baba Yagâa, and Misha the bear.
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9781563244902 | M E Sharpe Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: This collection of 150 ancient Russian animal tales illustrates all 119 animal tale types.
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9781563244896 | M E Sharpe Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $158.00
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9781563244940 | M E Sharpe Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $47.95
Yoshka, a clever young Russian boy, sets out to test his skills in the world when he hears of a reward being offered to anyone who can cure the czar of his terrible illness
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9780816737550 | Troll Communications Llc, November 1, 1995, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Yoshka, a clever young Russian boy, sets out to test his skills in the world when he hears of a reward being offered to anyone who can cure the czar of his terrible illness
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9780606082624 | Demco Media, November 1, 1995, cover price $8.86 | About this edition: Yoshka, a clever young Russian boy, sets out to test his skills in the world when he hears of a reward being offered to anyone who can cure the czar of his terrible illness
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9780679436416 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1995, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of traditional Russian tales including 'Vassilissa the Beautiful,' 'The Frog Princess,' and 'The White Duck'
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9781856979436 | Kingfisher Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Four Russian folktales--'The Snow Maiden, 'Sadko the Merchant,' 'The Firebird,' and 'Baba-Yoga and Fair Vassilisa'--are set in the framework of a fifth tale, 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan,' as told by a wise old cat
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9780486270838 | Dover Pubns, May 1, 1992, cover price $1.00 | About this edition: Ten Russian animal folk tales, including 'The Tortoise and the Elephant,' 'The Ram and the Leopard,' and 'The Wolf's Dream'
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9780192741066 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1978, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Folktales collected in all parts of the country from the Ukraine to Eastern Siberia
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9780192741448 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 26, 1990, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Folktales describe great banquets, strange journeys, mighty battles, mountains of gold, witches, and the adventures of princesses, princes, minstrels, and merchants
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9780606045315 | Demco Media, April 1, 1990, cover price $21.17 | About this edition: Folktales describe great banquets, strange journeys, mighty battles, mountains of gold, witches, and the adventures of princesses, princes, minstrels, and merchants
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9785050000545 | Imported Pubn, November 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of thirty-three traditional tales from Russia.
Hardcover:
9785050015600 | Firebird Pubns, November 1, 1988, cover price $12.95
Hardcover:
9780382065972 | Silver Burdett Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: The old folk literature of Russia comes to life in a collection of entertaining stories
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